Joanna Hiffernan
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Joanna Hiffernan or Joanna Heffernan was an Irish artists' model and muse who was romantically linked with American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler and French painter Gustave Courbet.
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![James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl (1862), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Hiffernan is the subject of this portrait.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Whistler_James_Symphony_in_White_no_1_%28The_White_Girl%29_1862.jpg/1280px-Whistler_James_Symphony_in_White_no_1_%28The_White_Girl%29_1862.jpg)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl (1862), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Hiffernan is the subject of this portrait.[1]
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, (1864-65), Tate Britain
Gustave Courbet, La belle Irlandaise (Portrait of Jo) 1865-1866, Metropolitan Museum of Art, a painting of Joanna Hiffernan
Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil (Sleep), 1866, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
1881 Census sheet showing Hiffernan living at 2 Thistle Grove LaneArtists from United Kingdom 6
About this person
Joanna Hiffernan or Joanna Heffernan was an Irish artists' model and muse who was romantically linked with American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler and French painter Gustave Courbet. In addition to being an artists' model, Hiffernan herself also drew and painted, although it is not believed she ever exhibited her work.
Country
United KingdomCategory
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1843 to 2000 · aged 157
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